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USDA Celebrates the One-Year Anniversary of the PAVE Task Force

April 10, 2023 Jay Pinsky, Public Affairs Specialist for Rural Development

In June 2021, President Joe Biden announced the creation of the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity (PAVE) to root out racial and ethnic bias in home valuations after a report from the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation found that appraisals for home purchases in...

Equity Rural

Agencies Making Progress to Connect America

January 13, 2017 Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator and Lisa Mensah, U.S. Department of Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development

Over the last eight years, our agencies have worked to expand the availability and adoption of broadband in recognition of the increasingly important role that the Internet is playing in every facet of society. Recognizing the opportunity to marshal resources across the entire federal government...

Technology

When Storm Clouds Darkened the Skies in Southern Louisiana, Extension Specialists Lit up Social Media

September 27, 2016 Scott Elliott, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

(This guest blog describes how the Healthy Homes Partnership helped residents affected by recent flooding in Louisiana. Healthy Homes Partnership is an interagency program funded by USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of...

Conservation

USDA Officials Discuss Housing Opportunities During the 38th Annual National American Indian Housing Council Conference in Alaska

June 27, 2012 Larry Yerich, USDA-RD – Alaska Public Information Coordinator

June is Homeownership Month in America. Earlier this month, representatives of Native American Tribes traveled from as far away as Massachusetts to Anchorage, Alaska, to attend the three-day National American Indian Housing Council (NAIHC) Conference. Now in its 38 th year, the main theme was...

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